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Author Stratton, Florence.

Title When the storm god rides : Tejas and other Indian legends / retold by Florence Stratton ; collected by Bessie M. Reid (Mrs. Bruce Reid) ; illustrated by Berniece Burrough
Published New York ; Chicago [etc.] : C. Scribner's sons, [1936]
©1936

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 ADPML SPCHL  398.209764 Str/Wts  LIB USE ONLY
Description x pages, 1 leaf, 243 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. ; 19 cm
Contents Foreword / Florence Stratton -- When the Storm God Rides -- How the North Wind Lost His Hair -- Kachina Brings the Spring -- The Sweet Gum's Amber Tears -- The Plant that Grows in Trees -- Why the Woodpecker Pecks -- The Woodpecker's Stumpy Tail -- Chief Two Hawks' Trail -- The Magnolia Babies -- Old Wooly Bird's Sacrifice -- A Tribe that Left Its Shore -- The Cloud that Was Lost -- The Swift Blue One -- The Wise Man's Big Bald Head -- Grandmother River's Trick -- Why Humming Birds Drink Only Dew -- When the Stars Took Root -- The Maiden Who Loved a Star -- Old Quanah's Gift -- How Sickness Entered the World -- The Evil Water Spirits -- Why the Irises Hold Hands -- The Pecan Tree's Best Friend -- When the Rainbow Was Torn -- Paisano, Hater of the Rattlesnake -- Maidens Who Broke a Drouth -- Why Arrows Have Feathers -- The Cottonwood Remembers -- Why the Skunk Walks Alone -- How the Turkey Hid Her Eggs -- Why the Dog's Earls Flop -- About the Tejas Indians -- Interesting Things to Do -- Indian Symbols
Subject Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Indians of North America -- Texas -- Folklore.
Hasinai Indians -- Folklore.
Genre/Form Folklore
Folklore.
Folklore.
Author Reid, Bessie M
Burrough, Berniece
LC no. 36013681
Other Titles Tejas and other Indian legends
Tejas and other Indian legends